mm-Wave CMOS to the Rescue: 5G and Beyond Next Generation (xG) Communications
Prof. Ali M. Nicknejad
Bio: Ali M. Niknejad was born in Tehran, Iran and received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University
of California, Los Angeles, in 1994, and his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering
from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997 and 2000. He is currently a professor in the
EECS department at UC Berkeley and faculty director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center
(BWRC). Prof. Niknejad is the recipient of the 2012 ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award for
his textbook on electromagnetics and RF integrated circuits. He is also the co-recipient of the
2013 Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper for his work on an efficient Quadrature
Digital Spatial Modulator at 60 GHz and the 2010 Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper
for his work on a 90 GHz pulser with 30 GHz of bandwidth for medical imaging, and the corecipient of the Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at ISSCC 2004 for co-developing a
modeling approach for devices up to 65 GHz. He is a co-founder of HMicro and inventor of the
REACH(™) technology, which has the potential to deliver robust wireless solutions to the
healthcare industry. His research interests lie within the area of wireless and broadband
communications and biomedical imaging. His focus areas of his research include analog, RF,
mixed-signal, mm-wave circuits, device physics and compact modeling, and numerical techniques
in electromagnetics. Outside of school, Ali enjoys spending time with his family and on the
football pitch.